Salvation Army readies Red Kettles to hit streets

5:03 AM,
Nov. 13, 2012

Bells to be handed out to bell ringer volunteers Monday at the Salvation Army in Port Huron.

Written by

Beth LeBlanc
| Times Herald

Now 85 years old, Bill Miskell, of Port Huron, still remembers when his family moved to Michigan in 1938.

Miskell said his father moved the family from Missouri searching for opportunities in the middle of the Great Depression. But Miskell doubts the family would have made it through those years were it not for a regular supply of Campbell's soup from the Salvation Army.

"They were the only ones to put food on our table," he said. "That's the only reason I ring the bell today, because they helped us survive." ...